The King

¹⁴ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession^(A) of it and settled in it,^(B) and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”^{(C) 15} be sure to appoint^(D) over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites.^(E) Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

¹⁸ When he takes the throne^(A) of his kingdom, he is to write^(B) for himself on a scroll a copy^(C) of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. ¹⁹ It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life^(D) so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees^{(E) 20} and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law^(F) to the right or to the left.^(G) Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.^(H)